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... >RINCE CHARLES OF EDINBURGH IN THE ARMS OF NURSE HELEN ROWE With the birth of Prince Charles the Royal family gathering this year involved four generations. Because of the King's arterial trouble, which prevented him from going to Sandringham, there was a Christmas Day party at Buckingham Palace, and it was from the Palace that the King made his usual Christmas Day broadcast to the nation. ...
... amfliH BUILDING MATERIAL CROWDS BLITZED CLOISTER COURT Another scene within the precincts of Parliament and away from the public eye. From Parliament Square it is impossible to see any of the intense building activity now proceeding, as the New Palace Yard facade was left intact in the blitz which destroyed the House of Commons Chamber. On the right is the Offertory where King Charles I signed ...
... NEW YORK IN WINTER'S GRIP-- HEAVY FALLS OF SNOW COINCIDED WITH THE APPROACH OF THE CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS: Left-- Children gazing at the lighhi Christmas-tree on Park Avenue during the snowstorm, which swept the whole of the North-Eastern United States. Right Cars in a Brooklyn street complete shrouded after 20 ins. of snow had fallen. The snowfall was the third heaviest in New York's history, ...
... HHnHlllHi ■■HI THE GUARDS HOLD THEIR ANNUAL CAROL SERVICE Guardsmen leading the procession into the Royal Military Chapel, Wellington Barracks, where the service was attended by Queen Mary on the Sunday before Christmas. Music was provided by the Royal Horse Guards Band, and the choir was that of the Welsh Guards. During the week-end before the holiday Christmas music drew thousands to the ...
... nKMappMH 1 Jhe Royal Geographical Society and the Institute of Navigation, sponsors of the Navigation Through the Ages Exhibition, have timed their display well, for there must be thousands of schoolboys who will take the opportunity of seeing the exhibition in the course of the Christmas holidays. It is a fascinating display, including the astrolabes and Portulan charts of earlier days, and ...
... ■HI r SOMETHING NEW IN GUNNERY TARGETS--THE OQ-I9A IS INTRODUCED AT THE WRIGHT PATTERSON AIR FORCE BASE, DAYTON, OHIO, TO TEST U ACCURACY OF AMERICAN GUNNERS Left The machine on its launching rail before take-off. In the cradle beneath the fuselage is a Rocket to biost t 4 take-off speed. Right The OQ-I9A travelling down its 60-ft. runway before soaring into the air, where it can be controlled ...
... I WONDER when any of you last went to the British Museum? My own recent visit, up to this week, was in 1922 when I was investigating a well-authenticated story that the police constables on duty there refused to enter the Egyptian mummies' room during the night because one of the mummies was said to be more than somewhat unlucky. Full of Christmas bonhomie, the other day X telephoned the ...
... MOTHER-IN-LAW LOVE IN A CORNISH HOUSE Anne Leon, Gertrude Lawrence and Michael Gough in a dramatic scene from the first act of Daphne du Maurier's new play, September Tide, at the Aldwych Theatre GERTRUDE LAWRENCE RETURNS TO THE LONDON STAGE IN DAPHNE DU MAURIER'S NEW PLAY, SEPTEMBER TIDE She takes the part of Stella Martyn, and the play concerns her love for her young artist son-in-law. ...
... r^r. Malan has announced that the Government will appoint a commission of inquiry to in vestigate the causes of the Durban riots. In many ways the riots were wholly unexpected, the degree of anti- Indian feeling was not fully realised, and those in South Africa who are working so hard against the Nationalist theory of native segregation feel that a bitter blow has been dealt against their ...
... IIT verybody enjoyed the picture Mr. Deeds Goes to Town, the story of the little man who fought for all the under-dogs when wealth came his way. Well, Garry Davis, self-styled Citizen of the World, has all the aspect of a Mr. Deeds in real life, and he maintains the little man legend by often wearing U.S. Army trousers and a brown flyer's jacket. When he first camped out on the doorstep of the ...
... ^J^hat struck many American visitors to England lasl summer was the^ extraordinary shabbiness of many of London's squares, livery house, almost without excep tion, required a coat of paint. Painting work is now going ahead at noticeable speed, and it will assuredly be a brighter London that greets the hoped-for tourist crowds in the summer of 1949, nearly ten years after the world convulsion ...
... In the vast areas of the Transkei, that part of South-Eastern Cape Province which abuts on Natal, there are over 1 ,000,000 natives and less than 20,000 whites. There native customs survive untainted. A typical T ranskei village in Pondo- land is Indali, and the pictures on this page show the coming of age of Tshudwana, a girl of the village. It is an all-day ceremony, with much elaborate ...